Guided Meditations
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Meditation: Cultivating a Gentle, Kind Attention (19:27 min.)
This meditation calls on the image and felt sense of a smile as we scan through the body, and invites a receptive and caring presence, as we open our attention to the changing...
Meditation: Letting Go of Doing (21:17 min.)
Meditation becomes truly freeing in the moments when there is no controlling whatsoever; when nothing is resisted or grasped after. This guided meditation begins with a simple...
Meditation: Refuge in Living Presence (22:18 min.)
We spend great swaths of time in a trance that removes us from awareness of our body and senses. This meditation reconnects us by scanning through the body, including sounds and...
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Meditation: A Welcoming Heartspace (18:01 min.)
Our pathway to peace and happiness is through opening, with tenderness, to our moment-to-moment experience. This meditation guides us first to be awake in our body and senses,...
Meditation: The Center of Now (15:38 min)
This meditation awakens our senses, then guides us to rest in the changing flow of experience. When the mind drifts, we are invited to relax back into full living presence, into...
Meditation: Relaxed and Alert (19:37 min.)
This meditation begins with a period of relaxing and collecting our attention with intentional long, deep breathing. We then deepen embodied presence, and widen to the awareness...
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Meditation: Letting Go… Letting Be (16:48 min.)
This guided meditation invites us to imagine a clenched fist relaxing open, and explores this in releasing contractions in the body as well as the grip of thoughts. When we...
Meditation: Listening to our Heart (22:08 min)
True listening arouses an open receptive presence that can be truly healing. This meditation awakens a listening presence; first bringing that receptive awareness to sensations...
Meditation: Receiving Life in Open, Awake Awareness (19:59 min.)
This meditation awakens a receptive attention to the senses, starting with physical sensations and opening to sound. Then we sense how open awake awareness is receiving the...
Meditation: Awakening Our Full Aliveness (20:22 min.)
We cut off from our aliveness when we are lost in thoughts and on auto pilot. This meditation arouses a receptivity to sensation from “the inside out,” opens the awareness to...
Meditation: Energy and Source (19:10 min)
Our incessant thinking removes us from the full aliveness, vastness and mystery of Being. This guided practice helps us inhabit our energetic forms and rest in the vast, formless...
Meditation: Opening to the Mystery (16:47 min)
This guided meditation includes a body scan and invites the receptivity and letting-go of whole body breathing. Once we have awakened the vitality and presence throughout the...
Meditation: Relaxed and Awake (16:59 min.)
This guided meditation helps us find ease and wakefulness in our body and mind. With the breath as our home base, we offer a gentle and full attention to the changing waves. We...
Guided Meditation: Opening to the Sea of Presence (20:07 min)
When our body and mind is relaxed, we become filled with a very awake, dynamic quality of presence. This meditation guides us in relaxing, opening our senses and resting in the...
Meditation: Whole Body Breathing (17:22 min.)
This guided meditation includes a body scan and invites the receptivity and letting-go of whole body breathing. Once we have awakened the vitality and presence throughout the...
Meditation: Breathing Our Way to Peace & Freedom (19:01 min.)
This meditation guides us in collecting attention with an intentional long deep breath, and awakening a full relaxed presence as the breath resumes in its natural rhythm. Resting...
Meditation: The Space of Loving Awareness (19:53 min.)
This meditation begins by guiding us through a scan: opening to inner space and aliveness, then to outer space, and then continuous space, filled with the light of awareness. We...
Meditation: Refuge of Living Presence (13:10 min.)
Our thoughts keep us removed from this living world. This guided practice invites us to open and relax with the moment-to-moment experience of our senses. It includes a poem by...
Meditation: Relaxing Back and Saying Yes to the Moment (18:50 min)
When we are stressed, our conditioning is to tighten our body. We tense against our moment-to-moment experience. This meditation is a powerful practice of de-conditioning this...
Guided Meditation: The Sea of Awareness (15:34 min.)
Our attention habitually fixates on the foreground of thoughts and feelings, and fuels an unconscious identification with a sense of separate self. This meditation guides us in...